Eric Smith wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to have an existing mod_perl application read from an
> external process? The case in point is procmail piping mails to the
> mod_perl application. With high volumes of email, we would prefer not
> to have to launch the perl interpreter each time to perform the tasks
> specified by the incoming email.
>
> Nasty way of effecting this communication is to have each mail message
> saved to a file and do a readdir every time interval.
>
> Is it possible to have the mod_perl process listen on a socket (or
> something) that procmail may write to?
Why not write a perl server that lisens to a socket ?
Regards
Greg Cope
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